While only 30% of U.S. and Canadian small- and medium-sized businesses did not have written incident response plans for ransomware attacks and other cybersecurity threats, 35% of those who did most recently examined their plans over six months ago and 20% did not backup their critical data offline, reports TechRepublic.
Publicly reported data breaches across the U.S. during the first quarter of 2022 were 14% higher than during the same period last year, with 92% of data breaches associated by cyberattacks, TechHQ reports.
NATO's Communication and Information Agency has commenced its yearly Locked Shields cyber defense simulation, which involves technical training for NATO members' and allies' cybersecurity teams in an effort to bolster their networks' and critical infrastructures' cyber defenses.
For the last year, several clients of tech vendor ECL have faced a host of patient safety, service issues, outages, and compliance concerns over what they allege were ‘concealed ransomware’ incidents.
SecurityWeek reports that cybercriminals and other threat actors had a median dwell time, or the duration from assumed initial intrusion and intrusion detection, of 21 days last year, which was the lowest since 2014, when median dwell times took 205 days.
Researchers for ESET reported Tuesday discovering at least three vulnerabilities affecting hundreds of Lenovo consumer laptops with millions of users worldwide.
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